Shadow Walk
I was revisiting the railing that I featured a month or so ago in a number of abstracts. It has a high vantage point above a walkway around Ross Bay, and the shadows were lovely.
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon 50mm/f1.4 lens, ISO100, f5.6, 1/250th Processed in Lightroom 4 and Topaz B&WEffects.
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Boy, oh boy, those shadows are dramatic! Love the monochromatic application here, it adds to the overall drama perfectly!
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Thanks Toad! The shadows were wonderful, and I too liked the treatment, though it was an accident and not planned (as I explained to Andy in another comment on this or the next post).
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Excellent composition, that entirely depends on the human presence, and was shot at the exact right moment. Well done, Ehpem. Personally, I’m not sure the colour adds to the image, I wonder what a pure B&W contrasty versions would look like – but that’s just my own thought and not a criticism.
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Hi Andy – thanks so much. I was waiting for a many walking his dog that I had seen in the distance coming my way. This man had been obscurd, but shot him because he walked closer to me than the others I had seen that were close to the water. His path was by far the best, thought he man and dog is ok, the shadow is not contained in one of the blocks of pavement the way this one is.
I had been using this treatment on another shot so when I opened the plug in this is what I saw first. I liked it, tweaked it and stayed with it. I have not explored the straight black and white version other than to convert this one just to see what it looked like. I will have a go with this image again. I quite like it in colour too – the light gives it a colour film feel somehow.
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That’s the surprise you get with some plug-ins – they use the last remembered settings and certainly it can give a shot an entirely different perspective. It’s always nice t hear the back story too.
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I like the surprise, it can be quite instructive and open up some new possibilities that I would never had thought of otherwise.
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The blue finish works well here. Great perspective.
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Hi Mike – thanks a lot. The perspective was what made me stop and raise the camera, and then shadows walked into the picture and it was complete.
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Perfect framing. It’s an exceptional good composition. So many folks don’t understand the importance of cropping to suit the picture. It would be nice if every full frame was perfect but in reality it isn’t every time. And I like the blue/yellow tone, a good choice for this.
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Thanks Ken. I did have to crop a bit as there were some vertical walls along the left that had to go and shooting with a prime from the top of a vertical overlook gives no options for framing by moving the camera location. I could not keep the aspect ratio and enough of the water for my taste, so the ratio had to change too.
I am not surprised you like the yellow/blue combination, for some reason.
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The color here reminds me of old-fashioned architectural blueprints. There’s a lot going on in this shot, and each element plays off the others in a way that makes it interesting to look at.
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Thanks Melinda. The colour is thanks to a Topaz preset that I quite like, with some tweaking. Mostly for what it does to what were otherwise quite pale shadows and so on, but also because it works in this photo.
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Wonderful lines. Great capture.
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Hi Jane – thanks for your comment. The processing really brought out the lines on the concrete, and the shadow.
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Nice post-process with a deft touch.
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This is great. Well composed. I love the blue hue.
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Hi Jessica – nice to have you commenting here. And thanks for your thoughts. I like that blue too, it works in this shot (though I have ruined some others with it).
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Lots of cool lines in this, Ehpem. And that shadow – it’s so long!
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Thanks Ashley, I was standing there admiring the lines,especially the curve, when someone walked through, with their shadow. It was just a matter of waiting for other someones to come along.
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